History of Reedsburg and the Upper Baraboo Valley, by Merton Edwin Krug, Publ. February 1929 by the author. Printed by Democrat Printing Company, Madison, Wis., Page 338-339

A district school was established in 1857. The first record of the district is dated September 29 of that year. The officers were Putnam FULLER, Director; William W. ALL, Treasurer; and Nehemiah H. AUSTIN, Clerk. It was voted that a school tax of $50 be raised for school purposes, and that "the site of the schoolhouse be removed," by which it is understood that there must have been a schoolhouse prior to the date on the record. An old settler remembers the existence of one on Brownell's Hill, and another described as "Pearson's" which stood "a mile away." Whether or not these were maintained under the district school system, he is unable to say. At the next meeting of the board, it was resolved to purchased [of] Jonas TOWER a schoolhouse site in the village of $150. Upon this site an educational edifice was later built. It was a brick structure and cost $600.

Prior to this action of the board, E. M. TOUT taught a class in a dingy apartment under FULLER & KEITH's store and Miss Sarah E. BAILEY of Reedsburg gave instructions to a limited number of pupils in the carpenter-shop kept by Mr. JOHNSON, B. F. BLACKMAN and John F. WILCOX appear to have been the first to teach in the brick schoolhouse and taught in 1859. Among the early teachers of the village were: Miss V. LONG, Alma WEIR, Nellie DAVIS, Rosa C. GLASS, O. T. GREEN, Jabez BROWN of Woodland, Frances D. DANFORTH of Reedsburg, Ella KEITH, Miss MEYERS, Miss ELLINWOOD, Phoebe BATES, Lorenzo BROWN of Woodland, Miss SPRAGUE, Miss WALKER, J. T. LUNN, who later became County superintendent; Mary A. WOOD, W. T. CORTLEYOU, D. E. MORGAN, Frank L. TWIST, of whom more elsewhere, Mary WOOD, Kate FITZGERALD, Hannah MANN, Lizzie STOWE, and H. M. JOHNSON.

Submitted by Carol